Verb
remove by or as if by cutting
Source: WordNetThe man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. Auguste Rodin
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. P. L. Travers
If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful. Yoruba Proverb
Does the left hand chop off the right? Darkovan Proverb
When you chop off a snake's head all you are left with is a piece of rope. Bambara Proverb